LDAP Authentication Provider: Configuration:
Common

Use this page to define the general configuration of this LDAP
Authentication provider.

Authentication is the process whereby the identity of users or system
processes are proved or verified. Authentication also involves
remembering, transporting, and making identity information available to
various components of a system when that information is needed.

By default, the WebLogic Authentication provider is configured in the
default security realm (myrealm). The WebLogic Authentication provider
allows you to edit, list, and manage users, groups, and group membership.
User and group information is stored in the embedded LDAP server.

The Control Flag attribute is the Java Authentication and Authorization
Service (JAAS) control flag that determines how the LoginModule for the
WebLogic Authentication provider is used in the login sequence.

You can use a custom Authentication provider instead of the WebLogic
Authentication provider. For a custom Authentication provider to be
available in the WebLogic Server Administration Console, the MBean JAR
file for the provider must be in the WL_HOME\lib\mbeantypes
directory.

A REQUIRED value specifies this LoginModule must
succeed. Even if it fails, authentication proceeds down the list of
LoginModules for the configured Authentication providers. This
setting is the default.

A REQUISITE value specifies this LoginModule must
succeed. If other Authentication providers are configured and this
LoginModule succeeds, authentication proceeds down the list of
LoginModules. Otherwise, control is return to the application.

A SUFFICIENT value specifies this LoginModule need
not succeed. If it does succeed, return control to the application.
If it fails and other Authentication providers are configured,
authentication proceeds down the LoginModule list.

An OPTIONAL value specifies this LoginModule need
not succeed. Whether it succeeds or fails, authentication proceeds
down the LoginModule list.